Jim Does Philly

President Kim is once again on the move selling his idea of a federal agency for the science of health care delivery — to be headed up, I’m sure, by someone really, really qualified to do this kind of work. I wonder who? Hint: rhymes with him.

This week’s target is Philadelphia, with not only two stories (here and here) in the Inquirer, but also a video.

Hey, Jim. How about spending some time on Dartmouth College, a wonderful institution that is supposedly focused on undergraduates?

October 18, 2009When Love Beckoned in 52nd Street
We were at San Francisco’s BIX last evening, enjoying prosecco, cheese, and a bit of music. A full year of inhabitation in Northern California has unraveled to me no decent venue for proper lounging, but…

October 9, 2009D Afraid of a Little Competish
So our colleague and Dartblog writer Joe Asch informed me that the D has rejected our cunning advertising campaign. Uh-oh. The Dartmouth is widely known as a breeding ground for instant New York Times successes,…

September 4, 2009How Regents Should Reign
As Dartmouth alumni proceed through the legal hoops necessary to defuse a Board-packing plan—which put in unhappy desuetude an historic 1891 Agreement between alumni and the College guaranteeing a half-democratically-elected Board of Trustees—it strikes one…

August 29, 2009Election Reform Study Committee
If you are an alum of the College on the Hill, you may have received a number of e-mails of late beseeching your input for a new arm of the College’s Alumni Control Apparatus called…